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A64970	The right notion of honour as it was delivered in a sermon before the King at Newmarket, Octob. 4, 1674. Published by His Majesties special command. : With annotations, the contents whereof are in the following leaf / by Nath. Vincent, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, and Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1685 (1685)	Wing V419; ESTC R3122	34,127	86

especially that we are to take care of One that we may not be called to an account for what we have done within a few days past the other that for the time to come we may live in a better enjoyment of our Liberties and more to our contentment Therefore that we may gain an Act of Pardon for our past Crimes it is my opinion that we must commit new ones which must be aggravated by Burning Plundering and such like Barbarities in which we must get as great a number of Accomplices as we can For where multitudes offend it is rare to have particular Persons singled out for punishment By this means a way will be opened for us to gain those Points that will support our Liberties When the Moors of Granada under the conduct of Jacob Almansor the Saracen were possessing themselves of the Provinces between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean the event of the War was for a long time doubtful And though the Moors were conquered in the Field yet in their minds they remained impregnable The greatest part of them to secure their Goods and Estates with the most execrable dissimulation pretended to be Christians and continued in Andaluzia But pressed with the Kings Edicts concerning Religion and remaining obstinate in the Superstition of their Country they retreated into the neighbouring Mountains and lived by Theft and Robbery France being then embroiled and the Arms of Spain employed against the rebelling Netherlands The Moors took this opportunity to appoint private Conventions All Ages and Conditions of People among them sent their Burgesses to Cales There did they agree upon the methodizing and timing their Conspiracy It was ordered in their Assembly that their design should be communicated by Widowers to Widowers by Husbands to Husbands and by young Bachelors to those of their own condition The Season pitcht upon is Winter and Christmas judged the fittest time when the nights are long when the Solemnities of the Festival fill the Churches and empty the Houses when the Kings Ships lay dispersed in several Havens without Soldiers and with a few Sailers this was their fittest opportunity for descending from the Mountains without making a noise They hold a Parliament where Ferdinando Caguer thus applies himself to their Unconstancy and Fears How long O my Friends Collegues and Fellow-Soldiers shall we suffer our selves to be baffled by means of our slothfulness How long shall the most petulant of Mankind treat us like People of a servile Condition nay and worse than Slaves Our Wives Children Estates are wholly at their disposal neither after so many Ages and a Servitude imbittered with the severest Pressures does any hope of Liberty dawn upon us New Burdens new Contributions new Taxes are daily imposed upon us As many Tenants as there are in the City so many of the cruellest Tyrants do we feel galling our Necks We miserable Wretches are forbidden commerce with God and Man Among the Christians we pass for Morisco's and are charged with their abominable Errors among the Moors we are suspected for Christians insomuch that they will not give us a word nor bestow an Almes upon us nor make a Bargain with us We therefore because we keep our Faith and purchase a miserable Life by a slavish Obedience are afflicted on all sides We are not more odious to one Party than suspected by another When the Milaneses had been at War with the Emperor Frederick for a long time and with various Success they were at length conquered and their City besieged Being forced to surrender upon Discretion the Emperor to prevent their future resistance rased their City Afterwards the principal Cities of Lombardy entred into a League to re-build and fortifie Milan whereunto they bound themselves by a Fanatick Oath which contained an hypocritical Declaration of Faith and Allegiance to the Emperor When this dutiful Rebellion was debated by the Deputies of the several Cities of Lombardy in the Church of St. James at Pontida in Bresciano they were setled in their design by the Discourse of Pinamonte Vimercato in which there were these Passages I do believe that every one of you Brethren Friends and Representatives of our most loving and faithful Allies knows perfectly the Devastations Ruines Murders Robberies and Violences acted upon every Sex and Age the Gabels Grievances and Wrongs done us by Frederick and other barbarous Persons commissioned by him naturally Enemies to the Italian name But forasmuch as this evil Plant is not yet fully rooted I suppose our present Union may deliver us from the perpetuity of that Slavery which grows every day more Heavy and Cruel The Parallel Instances in the beginning and Progress of the late Rebellion THE Lord Digby in his Speech for triennial Parliaments Jan. 19. 1640. complains that The Liberty and Property of the Subject is fundamentally subverted and ravisht away by the violence of a pretended Necessity Mr. Bagshaw in the beginning of his Speech against Episcopacy Feb. 9. 1640. sayes it does entrench upon the Rights and Liberties of the Subject as well as those of the Crown Mr. Waller in his Speech before the Commons 1640. upon the King's demand of a Supply hath this Passage Let us give new Force to the many Laws which have been heretofore made for the maintaining of our Rights and Privileges and to restore this Nation to its fundamental and vital Liberties the Propriety of our Goods and freedom of our Persons Denzill Holles at a Committee of both Houses in the Painted Chamber May 4. 1641. speaks these words They find viz. the Commons Jesuits and Priests conspiring with ill Ministers of State to destroy our Religion they find ill Ministers conjoyned together to subvert our Laws and Liberties Sir Henry Vane in his Speech for abolishing Episcopacy urges that it is prejudicial to the Civil State as having so powerful and ill an Influence upon our Laws the Prerogative of the King and the Liberties of the Subject In the Articles against Sir Richard Bolton Lord Chancellor of Ireland John Lord Bishop of Derry Sir Gerrard Lowther and Sir George Radcliffe this was the Leader that they intending the Destruction of the Commonwealth of this Realm have traiterously confederated and conspired together to subvert the Fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdom and in pursuance thereof they and every of them have traiterously contrived introduced and exercised an arbitrary and tyrannical Government against Law throughout this Kingdom by the Countenance and Assistance of Thomas Earl of Strafford then chief Governour of this Kingdom The first Article of the Impeachment of the Lord Keeper Finch was that the said John Lord Finch hath traiterously and wickedly endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws and established Government of the Realm of England and instead thereof to introduce an arbitrary tyrannical Government against Law which he hath declared by traiterous and wicked Words Counsels Opinions Judgments Practices and Actions The same Article begins the Impeachment of the Earl of Strafford after the